upper works

Example sentences from the Web for upper works

• Under the approaching smoke the hull and upper-works of a steamer were growing larger.

  The Sea-Wolf |Jack London

• Her blunt bows and the unusual height of her upper-works offered too much resistance to the wind.

  Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 |Karl Spindler

• Other shots damaged the upper-works, but the armour-plating was not struck.

  The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 |Charles Royle

• Some part of the upper-works of the fort were within three hundred yards of the town.

  Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp |John Shipp